The Best Posh Restaurants In London

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So why not dine at one of the best posh restaurants in London, you’re sure to be impressed with quality of service, delicious cuisine and beverages on offer! More than 60 posh London restaurants have been awarded Michelin stars, so it can be hard to decide which exclusive restaurants are worth your time — and money. But don’t worry, we’ve found the top restaurants worth sampling.

Whether you’re celebrating a special occasion or just want a taste of the London VIP nightlife on a Monday night, these are the best posh restaurants in London to fit the bill.

Restaurant Gordon Ramsay is one of two posh London restaurants that hold three Michelin stars. Michelin says the classical, modern food “is executed with considerable poise, a lightness of touch and remarkable attention to detail.” UK quality ingredients, such as Scottish lobster tail and Cornish turbot, are the stars of the menu.

The flagship restaurant of the acclaimed celebrity chef, is a must visit restaurant for any lover of quality food, and their acclaimed gift experiences, from their 7-course tasting meal to their a la carte for 2, are the best way to truly understand which is so well-rated about this staple restaurant. It definitely is one of the best posh London restaurants to go out to.

Chef Marcus Wareing worked for Gordon Ramsay until they had a very publicized falling out. Wareing followed up by opening Marcus, which features modern European cuisine made with British ingredients and is definitely one of the best posh restaurants in London to dine in.
Michelin gave Marcus two stars and says, “dishes come with a refreshing lack of complication.” One of the most popular dining options is the seasonal tasting menu that gives you the chance to sample items like Dorset crab and Herdwick lamb.

The elegant presentation of the dishes and the decadent way they have furnished the restaurant makes sure every customer knows exactly why this place was awarded 2 Michelin stars, and once you dine here, you will never forget it.

Hélène Darroze is a fourth-generation chef of French gourmet cooking. She literally brings the tastes of her native Landes region to England by shipping ingredients in from southwest France.
The Michelin two-star experience includes choosing 5, 7 or 9 courses by selecting marbles from a Solitaire board and is considered one of the best posh restaurants in London to go out to.

Each bears the name of an ingredient, such as fresh fish from the Saint-Jean de Luz market or pigeon from Racan, and to play, you simply leave in all the ingredients that you want to go into making your dish.

Looking at the menu it is not difficult to see why this place is so highly rated by both professionals and customers alike, and their innovative way of leaving the guests more in control of what’s on the menu shows the forward thinking that has left it a household name in the restaurant business.

Sketch is not only one of the best posh restaurants in London, but it is also one of the most expensive. Costing around $240 per person, it features extremely high-quality ingredients on all of its French menus. Its tasting menu showcases a sea garden of red mullet, oysters, lobster, frog legs, and pigeon, and don’t forget the six mini desserts.

This venue is a well-known Mayfair staple for it’s original art-deco themes which are primarily focused on the creative, making this place the perfect dining experience for the avid artist, showcasing over 200 artworks from British artist David Shrigley all in their Gallery room.

The room itself looks like something out of a Wes Anderson movie, with baby pink art deco furnishing adorning the venue, and making you feel transformed to another era. And if the decorations didn’t sway you, their innovative and original menu which is well known in Mayfair as being a must-taste should.

Even though this Ritz Restaurant only has one Michelin star, that doesn’t mean it’s any less lavish than the others on this list of the best posh restaurants in London. Its fine cuisine matches its magnificent dining room, which is known as one of the most beautiful in the world.

Besides the usual lunch and dinner menus, The Ritz London also offers themed menus to fit your special occasion, such as the “Pre-Theatre” and “Live at The Ritz” menus. The venue itself screams luxury and makes sure you get transported to the ultimate lavish experience every step of the way.

One of their most well-known experiences are their set afternoon tea selection, starting from £57 per person, and is the perfect place to go for the best luxury sandwich and pastry selection, and is never complete without a glass of champagne to tie the whole experience together.

Speaking of lavish, if you dine at Alain Ducasse, expect to pay about $290 per person to nosh on its seasonal menu of French cuisine. If you want to make your seat as luxurious as the food on your plate, you can sit in the centre of the restaurant at Table Lumière, which is surrounded by 4,500 shimmering fibre optics.

The luxury French restaurant is well known with critics and consumers alike and if you are looking for one of the best dining experiences in the country, then you should look no further. And it’s not all completely unaffordable with it being considered one of the best posh London restaurants to dine in.

For £65 you can experience their lunch hour tasting menu, which includes 3 handpicked courses which are changed every Wednesday and 2 glasses of wine, and we can guarantee will be one of the best lunches you will taste.

Gauthier also offers an exclusive experience that depends on where you sit and is one the best posh restaurants in London to go out to. Each floor of the building offers different cuisine that is prepared in the basement kitchen. The French fare is equally unique because the chefs don’t use measuring devices, recipe books, or timers to create the dishes.

Each season’s menu features the freshest UK ingredients. In addition to this, this Soho staple is one which makes a heroic effort to cater to the Vegan population, with the head chef specialising in vegetable-based menu’s for over 2 decades, showing everyone that vegan food can be just as good as any other, and proving the best menu to prove it, as it won the Best Vegan Menu of the Year award in 2016.

If a quiet atmosphere for a first date is what you’re looking for, you’ll find it at Bob Bob Ricard, which doesn’t allow children younger than 12 to dine in and is one the best posh London restaurants to go out to. You can eat your dinner in the all-booth dining room any night of the year — yes, any night — because Bob Bob Ricard is open 365 days per year, even Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

One of our choices of posh restaurants in London, this Soho restaurant serves English and Russian cuisine, from Chicken Kiev to Beef Wellington, and it’s known for its “Press for Champagne” button at every table.
They also offer 3 different pricings for their menu, depending on when you visit, from off-peak, mid-peak to regular pricing which, depending on when you visit, can cut 25% off your bill. They also offer useful keys while deciphering the menu, whereby they code all the Russian menu items, so you know just where the dish you ordered has originated from.

Hawksmoor Seven Dials is a high-end steak restaurant that serves British beef and seafood and is one the best posh London restaurants to dine in. It’s located in an old brewery, where decades ago brew masters held steak suppers for London’s high society.

Be warned, don’t go if you’re not hungry. The large cuts don’t usually come any smaller than 500 grams and the regular steaks average around 300 grams. And, you won’t want to forget to sample one of their many sides, such as triple cooked chips and beef dripping fries.
If offers a perfect mix of anything anyone could every want, with a lavish steak menu for the meat lover, and an extensive seafood menu for those who prefer their meat to derive from the ocean.

And the cocktails they offer to wash your luxury meal down with are not to be missed. With an original menu of cocktails, it has something there guaranteed to please everyone, from their gin-based Marmalade cocktails, to their tequila-based Grapefruit Picador.

Barbecoa steakhouse is a partnership between two chefs, American Adam Perry Lang and Briton Jamie Oliver and considered to be one of the best posh London restaurants to go out to. Oliver is proud that the kitchen features equipment you don’t usually see in posh London restaurants, such as robatas, Argentinian grills, Texas pit smokers and a tandoor oven.

The staff cooks the rare-breed meat and free-range produce over fruit woods to give them their bold flavours. Wash them down with a drink from The Whiskey Wall, the biggest collection of whiskies in London. Self-acclaimed as the “home of smoke and fire”, it is a must visit for any steak-lover, offering a unique cooking experience that you don’t see in your average expensive London steakhouse.

And our recommendation is to go on a very empty stomach to make sure you have enough room for one of their “most outrageous desserts in London”, such as their Barbecoa Brownie, which accompanied by char grilled blood orange and a blood orange sorbet.

Island Grill prides itself on its sustainable cuisine that mixes traditional English fare with modern European influences and is one of the best posh London restaurants to dine in. It offers a variety of plate sizes and menus that change with the seasons. Examples of how the chefs mix fresh ingredients among their posh dishes are the Crispy Gressingham Duck Salad and Lancaster London Smoked Salmon.

Located right next to Lancaster Gate station, it is an exceptionally easy restaurant to access, but if you look at their menu, you may begin to understand why it may be slightly more difficult to get a table. This is the very definition of posh restaurants in London. Their use of fresh ingredients put together by some of the best professional chefs in the business, they claim this is all you need to “create a fantastic meal”, and we couldn’t agree more.

The Square prides itself on creating food that provides “pleasure through harmonious and classical flavours rather than technical wizardry and innovation” and is definitely one of the best posh restaurants in London to dine in. The tasting menu is meant to be shared by everyone at the table. It features unique items like Smoked Lincolnshire Eel, Raw Orkney Scallop and Richard Vaughan’s 55 Day Aged Pork.

The a la carte sample menu won’t disappoint your palate either with highlights like the Hand-Picked Devon Crab Soufflé and Marinated Scottish Langoustine Sandwich.
If all this talk about gourmet food has made you hungry, it’s time to book a table.

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This French beauty is a gem of Mayfair and it’s not very difficult to see why as it’s definitely one of the best posh restaurants in London to dine in. The Greenhouse has been Awarded 2 Michelin Stars, the staple restaurant offers their evening tasting menus from £125 per person for 6 courses and seeing the menu on offer makes it hard to resist, from Veal sweetbread to organic Welsh lamb.

They also offer an extraordinary element to their dining experience, their little hidden hideaway, boasting beautiful leafy garden hidden outside the restaurant. This restaurant prides itself on it’s use of only the freshest and best sourced ingredients to offer diner only the best meals there is to offer.

Umu boasts an impressive menu, with an emphasis on taking inspiration from traditional Japanese foods, from Tempura, to Sashimi, to an impressive selection of varied sushi’s, this venue is guaranteed to please anyone who is a lover of the Asian cuisine and is considered one of the best posh London restaurants to go out to.

However, they also offer other cuisines with a selection of French truffles available and a varying speciality menu depending on the market that day.
The restaurant itself looks like something out of a movie, with the whole venue adorning a brown theme, either brown cushion sofa’s, or their wooden interior which seems to dominate everywhere, almost making you feel as though you are in the most expensive tree house in the world.

The kitchen itself is visibly open, so not only can you watch the top chefs prepare some of the finest Japanese cuisine in the city, the open plan makes sure the beautiful scents of the Asian menu reach you.

Dinner by Heston Blumenthal yet another 2-star Michelin restaurant, this one, one of 2 venues the other of which is in Melbourne, owned by household name celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal and is one the best posh London restaurants to dine in.

The a la carte menu is something unforgettable from their Roast Iberico Pork Chops, to their decadent Roast Halibut with Green Sauce, these meals are not something to be missed, but it is best to go on a very empty stomach so you also have room for some of their lavish sides such as their triple cooked chips, and some of their unbelievable deserts which will leave you coming back for more.

They also offer a chef’s table for a more luxurious, if that was even possible, experience, setting you back £225 for a 9-course dinner, but if you look at the menu, which changes regularly with the chefs creating new and innovative dishes, it’s mot hard to see why.

The brainchild of a father and daughter duo, the Ametsa with Arzak Instruction restaurant brings a taste of the Basque region to London. Their menu, hailing from the north of Spain is something a dream to food lovers, but comes at a hefty price plus it’s one of the best posh restaurants in London to go out to.

Setting you back £165 for the Dinner tasting menu, the price is easy to understand once you taste their menu and remember that this price does also include the cost of 5 glasses of wine, or for a lunch experience at £78 including 3 glasses of wine, which they make sure are hand picked to be paired with the best dishes.

The Michelin star awarded restaurant sits in the Halkin in London’s Belgravia and the daughter behind the masterpiece, Elena Arzak was voted Veuve Cliquot’s Best Female Chef in 2012, so it’s not difficult to image the beauty and luxury that goes into this must visit restaurant’s menu.

Last, but most definitely not least, is something a little different. Benares is an upscale Mayfair beauty which offers a menu full of Indian-British fusion dishes and is one of the best posh restaurants in London to dine in. The head chef helped this place to be awarded it’s Michelin star and it’s not very difficult to see why.

Atul Kochhar, the head chef, is the first Indian chef to be awarded a Michelin star, and his work shows in his menus.
Their tasting menu’s start at £98, making it one of the most affordable venues on this list, but the food still lives up to everything else here, and offers a unique menu that, cooked at this skill level will be difficult to find at any other restaurant in the city.

This tasting menu offers a little bit of everything you could ever want, with a selection of shellfish, chicken, fish, lamb and a choice of dessert, with a sorbet in the middle to cleanse the palate. This decadent blend of culture showcases all that is best about Indian food, and is a must visit for any lover of culture cuisine.

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